Holly Wainwright from OK Magazine talks about the celebrity power at the inauguration. The Oscar nominations are tomorrow, who are the front runners? Madonna and Guy are talking once again and Kelly Osbourne has been arrested.
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From his power deprived hotel room in central Wellington Russell Brown deconstructs Barack Obama’s Inauguration speech and highlights some of the main messages America and the world can take from it. In particular the passage that reaches out to the “non believers”. Russell Brown is chief blogger at publicaddress.net.
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Barack Obama made it clear in his inaugural address today that the US needs to tackle global warming and switch to renewable sources of energy.
Co-leader of the Green Party, Russel Norman was watching and listening, and gives his thoughts on the new American president who appears to be pro-science. Does this mean all science or just the good science?
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Peru is threatening to sue Yale university to force the return of over 40,000 artefacts from Machu Picchu it says the museum should have given back a almost a century ago and a canine club in Peru offered a solution Tuesday to one of US president-elect Barack Obama’s most pressing dilemmas: where to find a White House dog suitable for his allergic daughter.
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The new government will be reducing our environmental progress while Obama is stepping the US up.
So what does the National and Act coalition mean for the environment and the Emmisions Trading Scheme? Is the real loser in this year’s election the environment?
Vincent Heeringa from Idealog Magazine explains
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Yeshe Hegan in Paris reports on the effect Obama’s win is having in France. The french were big supporters for this guy from the outset and now it’s causing some serious reflections on France’s own race discrimination issues in french politics. Suddenly their attitude of ‘looking down their nose’ at the US has turned to American envy!
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Vernon is an ex-pat American and academic in American studies living in New Zealand and gives his reaction on Obama’s election. Vernon puts yesterday’s events into context for both American, black and white, and for New Zealanders and the rest of the world.
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Msbehaviour shows us how to complete tasks like picture, audio and video editing using your web top rather than expensive product suites loaded onto your computer. Find the show notes over at the big idea. And Mohawk Media is joining the Canada for Obama web stream party! Chelfyn will be kicking off the online election coverage with an hour long DJ / VJ set live from Auckland at 5 p.m. NZ time. Details at The G33kshow.
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Mariah Craven reports that the Bush administration is reportedly talking about the government getting ownership stakes in banks.
After a small uptick this morning, the markets continued their downward slide. This comes a day after the federal reserve “and other leading central banks cut interest rates to help fight the credit crisis and stimulate the global economy. Incredibly the country’s debt has gotten so high that the national debt clock in New York City has run out of numbers.
In other news it’s 32 days to the election, which means voter registration will be closing in most places in the next couple of days. In some neighborhoods, there have been lines out the door at sites where people can register. Meanwhile, the New York Times discovered that tens of thousands of voters may have illegally been removed from rolls.
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Russell gives his view on the US election which has taken a sordid and vicious turn with racist taunts reportedly thrown at a black cameraman working at one of Sarah Palin’s campaign addresses. The Media 7 show tonight focuses on Fonterra farm dirty steams and Russell reports on the panel discussion. Finally its the Vodafone NZ Music Awards tonight, Russell is looking forward to a night out and I will be broadcasting live and twittering “behind the curtain”
Russell Brown is chief blogger at publicaddress.net
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